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Justin Timberlake has lent his backing to 901, a tequila that’s hitting the shelves of your local liquor store next month. (Perhaps that’s what he’ll be promoting during his Saturday Night Live hosting stint next Saturday?) The New York Daily News went to some booze experts–a bunch of people who work at the fancy-cocktail spot Death & Co.–and they liked the tequila enough to gently suggest that JT remove his name from the product, so as to help its chances among booze snobs: More »
Archive for April, 2009
Thu Apr 30 2009 by Maura
On a day when I found out that the possibility of slashing late-night subway service isn’t “off the table” as far as MTA budget-cutting tactics go, it sure was nice–if a little bittersweet–to read the story of the Duke Ellington Orchestra’s trip on the A train yesterday, during which the musicians played Ellington’s ode to the line in honor of what would have been the pianist/composer’s 110th birthday. [NYT / Pic via wallyg] More »
Eminem Gives Cinemax A Real Premiere To Cry About
Thu Apr 30 2009 by Maura
The video for Eminem’s “3 A.M.” will debut on Cinemax this Saturday, right before the movie channel airs some flick about Liv Tyler getting terrorized while on vacation. (Alas, it doesn’t look like it’s a member of the National Lampoon franchise.) The press release touting the video’s debut says that this marks a “first for the network”; you, like me, may be thinking “wait, what about that Kid Rock video all those months ago,” but that was actually just a TV premiere of a video that had already been on YouTube for quite some time. Ah, semantics! More »
Oasis Never Sleeps
Thu Apr 30 2009 by Maura
In today’s noontime headline roundup: Oasis nix hiatus, Clear Channel is pretty much dead broke, and Kanye West is REALLY EXCITED TO BE THOUGHT OF AS FASHIONABLE! More »
Swine Flu Bans The Snowman
Thu Apr 30 2009 by Maura
A Young Jeezy show at the University of Delaware has been canceled in light of 10 suspected cases of swine flu being discovered on campus. Meanwhile, in Mexico, most public gatherings have been canceled for the foreseeable future, including a Four Tet show in Mexico City that was scheduled for tonight and a Camp Freddy show in Cancun on May 18–although in the case of the latter I wonder if there was also any sort of mercy rule that came into play. [Delaware News Journal via MTV / Pollstar] More »
Rick Ross Can’t Stop Sucking On Beef
Thu Apr 30 2009 by Maura
Now that his seemingly neverending squabbling with 50 Cent has resulted in his new album Deeper Than Rap being No. 1 on this week’s album charts (if not much of an in-store draw), Rick Ross has decided to move on to a new target: Known Curtis Jackson associate Eminem, who–what do you know!–has a new album of his own coming out next month. In the above video, which is filmed while Ross is on some sort of expensive vacation, Ross brags about his album sales and kvells over his own personal DJ being overpaid and waves a pair of Kanye West-designed shoes around before taking time to call Em a “hunghkey” (ugh) during Yet Another Tirade About How G-Unit Sucks. I’m sure the pretty much inevitable second-week sales drop-off will result in some Eminem-led counterattack coming from the other side of the table, but for now, let’s look at some figures that a commenter on Nah Right claims are a comparison of budgets for Jadakiss’ The Last Kiss, which came out two weeks ago, and the Ross album: More »
Matt Giraud Gets The Boot, Adam Lambert Gets An Ego Check
Thu Apr 30 2009 by Maura
As expected by pretty much everyone, Matt Giraud had his valentine to American Idol’s viewers roundly rejected, and so he was sent packing on last night’s episode. More surprising to observers, though, was the appearance of longtime frontrunner Adam Lambert in the bottom three, alongside Giraud and Kris Allen. Was this the result of shenanigans by the producers–who want people to keep watching, even despite the widespread assumption that Lambert’s going to win this thing–or was it the first piece of evidence that a wide swath of America isn’t really into the whole Scissor Sisters/Muse/Adam Lambert axis of rock, despite poor old Randy Jackson’s claims to the contrary? More »
Finally, An Excuse For Music Bloggers To Post About Swine Flu
Thu Apr 30 2009 by Maura
Stephan Zielinski is a San Francisco musician who was into the idea of translating a gene into a piece of ambient music–and thanks to the swine flu epidemic and its attendant craziness sweeping the world, he found the perfect gene to turn into a song that would result in a bunch of Google-fueled attention being paid to his music. And it only took him about six hours total! MP3 and an explanation of how he did it after the jump. More »
Beyonce: Everyone’s Favorite Celebrity For Scoring Points
Thu Apr 30 2009 by Maura
I wonder if part of the viral-marketing plan for Obsessed involves crafting elaborate Internet hoaxes around Beyonce, who’s one of the flick’s stars. Because this is just getting weird: First we had the whole “board tape from Today“ debacle, and now that kerfuffle over B sending a body double to a museum, which was actually a hoax perpetrated by a local radio station. I guess the station was trying to make a point about how famous people can basically get whatever they want for free because of peoples’ long-standing willingness to prostrate themselves in front of alpha members of their species? More »
